The Town Scryer

“Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, January 1911.” (1920 unknown location)

This Tuesday rained apples in the town of Keresley in Coventry, England. More than a hundred of the fruit were reported to have fallen from the sky. One … Read more

  This evening while channel surfing I chanced to stumble across an old friend’s television program on Public Access. Jeanie has been a pillar of the progressive movement … Read more

The above photo is of an Amazon warehouse. . I believe you can find the Ark of the Covenant near the upper right corner.

Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 … Read more

Back in the ’90s I wrote an occasional political satire column for a monthly called The Comic Press News. I remember during the run up to the ’98 … Read more

“Back in 2010, the ad agency Scholz and Friends made the following ads for The International Society for Human Rights. They feature famous pictures of horrifying news stories with absurdly false … Read more

Remember all those jobs that illegal aliens were taking from good hard working Americans? Remember all the good American men and women that would surely line up to … Read more

  A new study has shown that rats are capable of empathy. No only do they appear to share the discomfort of others, but they will free a … Read more

  Recently found in New Zealand, they grow to be about the size of a man’s fist and live up to 20 years.  Of course they still move … Read more